[Dovecot] basic understanding of imap in dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:44 -0800, dovecot at paz.bz wrote:
> My MTA (exim) delivers email to:   /mail/user
> dovecot, sucks that mail from /mail/user TO
> /home/user/mail/<filenamesoffolders>

No, it doesn't suck any email (by default anyway).

> I suppose my question is, is there a way to have dovecot empty/parse the
> original exim mailbox
> so that the customer email isn't sitting in two spots, 

Dovecot should be using the mailbox directly without copying it.

So you've misunderstood something, but without more information I can't
really guess what it is.

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